Hey this is just about the final draft, it details a few events in my life where in I had a revelation or that shows my character, please dont flame it or anything, any advice would be appreciated, I'm sending it off tomorrow afternoon so get back to me by then! fyi theres a last paragraph that im still working on...
Personal Statement
There’s a place in Lake Forest Park called the sand pit, it’s basically an abandoned quarry filled with sand. A forgotten place where my friends and I would hang out a lot and play games like ghost in the graveyard or capture the flag. There are some fairly tall cliffs where the erosion creates twenty or thirty foot drops onto a sand. We decided to jump off of them and see how high any of us dared to go. Of course one kid wanted to go off the 20+ foot cliff and dared everyone to jump off after him. I was reluctant it was really high and I’ve never been one to do dumb dangerous stuff for no reason. But after everyone had gone down they all dared me to go and made fun of how scared I obviously was. I ended up jumping off of it, not because I wanted to for intrinsic reasons but because I wanted to fit in and be one of the guys. Of course knowing me I landed on a flat area and wasn’t able to roll down like everyone else. I ended up breaking my right foot, receiving a les franc fracture (a rare and hard to heal injury). This is a perfect example of what following the pack did for me.
I was out of commission for over 10 weeks unable to walk for most of the summer and much of the first month of school. From that time on I stopped trying to please my peers and did the things that I really enjoyed, not the things that would make them laugh. I found that I had real friends who actually cared about me and enjoyed being myself not the person others wanted me to be.
As I moved up grade levels theres a particular event from my freshman year of Highschool that stands out. A person reached out to me. He made me reevaluate my beliefs and question how I spoke, dressed and acted on a day to day basis. He’s gay. Theres nothing wrong with that, what there was something wrong with is how I had consciously slurred him and many other people like him in public. I said things like “that’s so gay†and “what a fagâ€. Despite that he befriended me, and is still one of my best friends. After he came out to me, I realized how much my words must have hurt him and made a decision never to use those slurs again
This mindset is really evident in high school especially in my senior year. Drugs are more available and prevalent than ever. A lot of people are pressured into using them, I’ve managed to stay drug free. Saying no isn’t easy, there are a lot of people who use drugs and its socially normal to smoke marijuana. I’ve seen a lot of kids get into harder substances and felt inspired to volunteer at SAMA (Science And Management of Addictions).
Personal Statement
There’s a place in Lake Forest Park called the sand pit, it’s basically an abandoned quarry filled with sand. A forgotten place where my friends and I would hang out a lot and play games like ghost in the graveyard or capture the flag. There are some fairly tall cliffs where the erosion creates twenty or thirty foot drops onto a sand. We decided to jump off of them and see how high any of us dared to go. Of course one kid wanted to go off the 20+ foot cliff and dared everyone to jump off after him. I was reluctant it was really high and I’ve never been one to do dumb dangerous stuff for no reason. But after everyone had gone down they all dared me to go and made fun of how scared I obviously was. I ended up jumping off of it, not because I wanted to for intrinsic reasons but because I wanted to fit in and be one of the guys. Of course knowing me I landed on a flat area and wasn’t able to roll down like everyone else. I ended up breaking my right foot, receiving a les franc fracture (a rare and hard to heal injury). This is a perfect example of what following the pack did for me.
I was out of commission for over 10 weeks unable to walk for most of the summer and much of the first month of school. From that time on I stopped trying to please my peers and did the things that I really enjoyed, not the things that would make them laugh. I found that I had real friends who actually cared about me and enjoyed being myself not the person others wanted me to be.
As I moved up grade levels theres a particular event from my freshman year of Highschool that stands out. A person reached out to me. He made me reevaluate my beliefs and question how I spoke, dressed and acted on a day to day basis. He’s gay. Theres nothing wrong with that, what there was something wrong with is how I had consciously slurred him and many other people like him in public. I said things like “that’s so gay†and “what a fagâ€. Despite that he befriended me, and is still one of my best friends. After he came out to me, I realized how much my words must have hurt him and made a decision never to use those slurs again
This mindset is really evident in high school especially in my senior year. Drugs are more available and prevalent than ever. A lot of people are pressured into using them, I’ve managed to stay drug free. Saying no isn’t easy, there are a lot of people who use drugs and its socially normal to smoke marijuana. I’ve seen a lot of kids get into harder substances and felt inspired to volunteer at SAMA (Science And Management of Addictions).